chakras doll

i was in this yoga swap with a girl that did kundalini yoga. kundalini arising is when all chakras are awakened and aligned from your root one to your lotus one (top of the head). so the purpose of the doll is to show where the chakras position on the body and the colors associated with them.
i chose to knit the chakras in velvety soft and ridged round patches of thin mohair yarns held together to create the color that i wanted.

some yarns was dyed with kool aid.

the doll has her face all embroidered after my swapee.

she said she has "sunflowers" in her coloured eyes, so i embroidered sunflowers in them.

the purpose of this doll is Bliss in the body, healing the chakras:
this doll helps visualize the body chakras placement later when you're meditating.
touching its chakras is good as they are ridged (garter stitch) and fuzzy (mohair) and all the rainbow colors.
also, if when it's your face you cuddle it and like a soft toy you feel better and soothed :-)

Mal à Brigo

umph, chris helped me wind that beautiful vanilla Malabrigo skein. alas how could i have known it all cut threads? we had trouble and it was so sexy seeing him go through all that without whining.
i love those shared moments even if we had trouble and it was not easy.

i had been thinking for a while of making "Clapotis" to see how it is constructed so i am using this yarn for it. i've now got like 8 parts of the skein but i sure know how to not have knots *wink wink*

it's coming out fine, it seems, but i had to rip it like 6 times at the start because i was watching some silly soap at the same time.

7th time was the good one because i was alone, uninterrupted by any TV.

i don't belive in mindless knitting, knitting is the most mindful activity.

coach of OM

i've not blogged in a long time, but i was writing whenever i could on ravelry, reporting my finished projects.

i've not spoken so much in here about knitted items designed by others as my first interest and aim is to express myself in my knitwear.

so, coachella is a famous design among people that knit (i prefer to call us this because some us us just knit and others both create and knit, they are not mutually exclusive but i believe that knitting is inclusive to being a designer of knitwear because you must know your technique and produce your first model of everything you design; in french that is called "createur-modeliste").

... coach of OM is my name for "coachella", because, i knit it in view of vacations in the hot hot south of france and it is in marseilles near the OM stadium, stade Olympique de Marseilles, that this photo was taken because that's where it was worn the first time.

most of the coachellas i've seen were made with much sleeker yarn but i wanted to try the pattern with some bit of linnen so that the draping at the front pulls down on itself and just "sits" there instead of standing up and swaying right and left.